Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypo-&hyperkalaemia are common laboratory abnormalities, complicating up to 10% of all hospital admissions and contributing to mortality. Ideally, patients with mild deviations can be treated as outpatients, and only those patients with objectively severe or life-threatening levels are hospitalized. Once admitted, there are few data as to whether the degree of electrolyte disturbance consumes greater resource(s). We analysed the admission and discharge data, ...

Introduction: Hyponatraemia is a common biochemical abnormality, complicating up to 15% of all hospital admissions and associated with increased mortality. Hypernatraemia, occuring less frequently, is strongly associated with mortality and is almost always due to a free water deficit. There is limited data about hospital healthcare burden of these two relatively common electrolyte imbalances. We analysed the length of stay, for acute admissions, with reference to the admission...